The Clinton City Council approved the first reading of an amendment to an ordinance last week that will require carbon monoxide alarms in certain residences.
The new requirements would affect not only new construction, but also existing structures that contain sleeping quarters utilizing any fuel-fired appliance or having an attached garage with an opening that communicates with the dwelling, the ordinance says.
Amending Chapter 152 of the city code was necessary to include broader and more well defined provisions regulating the installation of some detectors and carbon monoxide alarms, the resolution says.
“Everybody has to do this,” Clinton Fire Marshal Jeff Chapman told the city council during a January meeting. The state mandated that any multiple-unit residential buildings or single-family dwellings constructed after July 1, 2018 that meet the criteria above include carbon monoxide alarms.